I. Works on the Theory and Study of Historical Memory
John E. Bodnar, Remaking America: Public Memory, Commemoration, and Patriotism in the Twentieth Century (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992)
Paul Connerton, How Societies Remember (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989)
Astrid Erll and Ansgar Nunning, Cultural Memory Studies: An International and Interdisciplinary Handbook (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2008)
James Fentress and Chris Wickham, Social Memory (London: Blackwell, 1992)
Maurice Halbwachs and Lewis A. Coser, trans., On Collective Memory (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992)
Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger, eds., The Invention of Tradition (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1983)
Edward T. Linenthal, Sacred Ground: Americans and Their Battlefields (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1991)
James W. Loewen, Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong (New York: New Press, 1999)
David Lowenthal, The Past is a Foreign Country (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990)
Pierre Nora, "Between Memory and History: Les Lieux de Memoire," Representations 26 (Spring 1989)
Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History (Boston: Beacon Press, 1995)
II. Works on the Theory and Study of Historical Geography
Maoz Azaryahu and Kenneth E. Foote, "Historical Space as Narrative Medium: On the Configuration of Spatial Narratives of Time at Historical Sites, GeoJournal 73 (2008): 179-194
Andrew Charlesworth, "Contesting Places of Memory: The Case of Auschwitz," Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 12 (1994): 579-593
Erika Doss, Memorial Mania: Public Feeling in America (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010)
Kenneth E. Foote, Shadowed Ground: America's Landscapes of Violence and Tragedy (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003)
Kenneth E. Foote and Maoz Azaryahu, "Toward a Geography of Memory: Geographical Dimensions of Public Memory and Commemoration," Journal of Political and Military Sociology 35 (2007): 125-144
Mark Gottdiener, The Social Production of Urban Space 2nd ed. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1994)
Jurgen Habermas, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society, trans. Thomas Burger (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1989)
Steven Hoelscher, "The White-pillared Past: Landscapes of Memory and Race in the American South," in Richard H. Schein, ed., Landscape and Race in the United States (New York: Routledge, 2006), 39-72
Nuala C. Johnson, "Cast in Stone: Monuments, Geography, and Nationalism," Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 13 (1995): 51-65
Henri Lefebvre, The Production of Space, trans. Donald Nicholson-Smith (London: Blackwell, 1991)
Richard H. Schein, "The Place of Landscape: A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting An American Scene," Annals of the Association of American Geographers 87 (1997): 660-680
III. Works on Southern Memory
David Blight, Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory, 1863-1915 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001)
W. Fitzhugh Brundage, ed., Where These Memories Grow: History, Memory, and Southern Identity (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000)
W. Fitzhugh Brundage, The Southern Past: A Clash of Race and Memory (Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005)
David R. Goldfield, Still Fighting the Civil War: The American South and Southern History (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2004)
Joan Marie Johnson, Southern Ladies, New Women: Race, Region, and Clubwomen in South Carolina, 1890-1930 (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2004)
Kirk Savage, Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth-Century America (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997)
IV. Works on White Southern/Confederate Memory
Bruce E. Baker, What Reconstruction Meant: Historical Memory in the American South (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2007)
William A. Blair, Cities of the Dead: Contesting the Memory of the Civil War in the South, 1865-1914 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004)
Robert E. Bonner, Mastering America: Southern Slaveholders and the Crisis of American Nationhood (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009)
Thomas J. Brown, The Public Art of Civil War Commemoration: A Brief History with Documents (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2004)
Benjamin G. Cloyd, Haunted by Atrocity: Civil War Prisons in American Memory (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2010)
Karen L. Cox, Dixie's Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003)
Gaines Foster, Ghosts of the Confederacy: Defeat, the Lost Cause, and the Emergence of the New South, 1865 to 1913 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987)
Tony Horwitz, Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War (New York: Vintage Books, 1999)
Caroline E. Janney, Burying the Dead but Not the Past: Ladies' Memorial Associations and the Lost Cause (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008)
Cynthia Mills and Pamela H. Simpson, Monuments to the Lost Cause: Women, Art, and the Landscapes of Southern Memory (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2003)
Nina Silber, The Romance of Reunion: Northerners and the South, 1865-1900 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993)
Charles Reagan Wilson, Baptized in Blood: The Religion of the Lost Cause, 1865-1920 (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1980)
V. Works on African American Memory
Elizabeth Rauh Bethel, The Roots of African-American Identity: Memory and History in Free Antebellum Communities (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997)
Kathleen Ann Clark, Defining Moments: African American Commemoration & Political Culture in the South, 1863-1913 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005)
Genevieve Fabre and Robert G. O'Meally, eds., History and Memory in African-American Culture (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994)
Mitchell A. Kachun, Festivals of Freedom: Memory and the Meaning of African American Emancipation Celebrations, 1808-1915 (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2003)
Earl Lewis, "Connecting Memory, Self, and the Power of Place in African American Urban History," Journal of Urban History 21 (March 1995): 347-71
Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp, Setting Down the Sacred Past: African-American Race Histories (Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010)
Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie, Rites of August First: Emancipation Day in the Black Atlantic World (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007)
Shane White, "'It Was A Proud Day': African American Festivals and Parades in the North,1741-1834," Journal of American History 81 (June 1994): 13-50
William H. Wiggins, Jr. and Douglas DeNatale, Jubilation!: African American Celebration in the Southeast (Columbia: McKissick Museum, 1993)
VI. Useful Works on Indian Memory
Keith H. Basso, Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language Among the Western Apache (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1996)
Daniel M. Cobb and Helen Sheumaker, Memory Matters: Proceedings from the 2010 Conference Hosted by the Humanities Center, Miami University of Ohio (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2011)
Karl Jacoby, Shadows at Dawn: A Borderlands Massacre and the Violence of History (New York: Penguin Press, 2008)
Malinda Maynor Lowery, Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South: Race, Identity, and the Making of a Nation (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010)
VII. Useful North Carolina Resource
William Stevens Powell and Jay Mazzocchi, Encyclopedia of North Carolina (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006)
